Greenwich, south-east London The Met's crack murder squad is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery Five bodies have been found, all young women, all ritualistically murdered, dumped on wasteland near the Millennium Dome Detective Inspector Jack Caffery, young, driven, unshockable, finds himself facing hostility within the force and echoes of his past in this Tortured by a death long ago that he might have prevented, he now employs every weapon forensic science can offer, he knows time is limited this sadistic killer will strike again